AC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Income Statement, List Of The Shield Episodes, Petty Cash

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The Petty Cash Fund
Companies normally use checks to pay their obligations because checks provide a
record of each payment. Companies also maintain a petty cash fund to pay for small,
miscellaneous expenditures such as stamps, small delivery charges, or emergency
supplies. The size of a petty cash fund varies depending on the needs of the business.
A petty cash fund should be small enough so that it does not unnecessarily tie up
company assets or become a target for theft, but it should be large enough to lessen the
inconvenience associated with frequently replenishing the fund. For this reason,
companies typically establish a petty cash fund that needs to be replenished every two
to four weeks.
Companies assign responsibility for the petty cash fund to a person called the petty
cash custodian or petty cashier. To establish a petty cash fund, someone must write a
check to the petty cash custodian, who cashes the check and keeps the money in a
locked file or cash box. The journal entry to record the creation of a petty cash fund
appears below.
Most companies would record this entryor any other entry that credits cashin the
cash disbursements special journal, but the illustrations use the general journal to
eliminate journal columns that are not relevant to this discussion and to conform with
this subject's presentation in most textbooks.
Whenever someone in the company requests petty cash, the petty cash custodian
prepares a voucher that identifies the date, amount, recipient, and reason for the cash
disbursement. For control purposes, vouchers are sequentially prenumbered and
signed by both the person requesting the cash and the custodian. After the cash is
spent, receipts or other relevant documents should be returned to the petty cash
custodian, who attaches them to the voucher. All vouchers are kept with the petty cash
fund until the fund is replenished, so the total amount of the vouchers and the remaining
cash in the fund should always equal the amount assigned to the fund.
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